I don't see that much benefit in the direct replication (short of finally achiving Banarch-Tarski?), however being able to import the scanned item into [insert you favorite cad/3d design tool] and be able to manipulate it from there would be fabulous. It'd certainly help with reducing the prototyping timeframe - especially when you are only trying to make a replacement part of a broken item (assuming you didn't already have the design implemented).

... now we get to see comments everywhere flooded with "Can I haz invite code, plz. user@genericdomain.com kthx"

Yeah, you defflinitely have "allow" it. But most people don't read half the messages excel or powerpoint throw at them. Just accept, accept, open, enable, install, install. Why do we even make botnets... I'm sure the users would do it on their own if they were prompted.

How interesting, you're paying initially for the opportunity to use the internet at a cretain bandwidth and then actually paying for the content you're using. Sort of like paying the capital cost for the infrastructure and then paying for the usage. Like paying for the sewer pipes each month then paying for water. While this isn't ideal, I don't consider it a terrible way to look at things. Maybe if you had a reduced subscription so everything balanced out (though we all know that won't happen).

The vagueness of this made my eyes hurt - oh and the traditional, "How did this make it to the front page?" Now that's out of the way, if you honestly can find a great product that harnesses all your needs with only a reasonable amount of customization then I'm sure they would be intrigued by it. But as in anything, you need to make a convincing argument. Lots of analysis about the cost/time/training savings that this "out of the box" system would use. However, there's a reason completely custom software exists. It matches the way the business runs not forcing the business to run how some generic software forces them to. I'd be more specific, but your context doesn't allow it.

I guess it's time to update the adage of "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" to "Women go to Mars, Men chill out and drink beer on Earth"

I keep seeing the poll out of the corner of my eye and wonder... what's the werid trick? I guess I'm the fish they are trying to bait. sigh.

Is this a suprise? I felt like this is a pretty obvious one. I mean, a newsworthy article would be that Apple would then use this data to induce mass climate change and natural disasters where there is a low density of Apple users to increase their market share.

What a cute way of saying loss of campaign financing...

Glad to know those guys are staying on the fringe of tech.

This seems to make the implication that the android market isn't full of crap too. I feel like a lot of this is due to people who could make a lot more money for a lot less effort. The mobile market has become saturated. Just as in the software market for normal applications, it'll only continue to be harder to make money.

What it comes down to, as long as there are people in using the marketplace, there will be people trying to make money off of those people. If iOS continues to dwindle and doesn't stabilize then it'll continue to lose developers. If it manages to maintain a reasoanble percentage of the market, people will stay to harvest the money available.

This is one of those obvious things that makes more sense afterward. Clearly the nerves have had years of constant input and you just take that away... it make sense that system would create false/phantom input as an assumption that it should be receiving some sort of signal. By increasing the amount of input, it creates a more normal state for the body... the more you knooooow.

$ grep -v flag ctf.txt

Welcome to the internet where the facts are made up and citations don't matter...